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Pork Stew with Hard Cider, Pearl Onions, and Potatoes

By epicurious · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple brandy and cider share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 10 recipes mention both. Both carry hexanol, which smells green, fruity. The science ↓

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6 servings

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Contains: milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Apple brandy + cidertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanol (green, fruity).

  2. Apple + cidertop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,042 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  3. Pork + chickentop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,375 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  4. Apple brandy + appletop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together38 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanol (green, fruity).

  5. Pork + potatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,667 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs